Are you regular Texags posters hearing anything about Lache Seastrunk and some issues with a street agent? It is all over some other boards and I wonder what you have heard, if anything.

there is always a rumor, I'll just leave it at that.

I know L$U 'mysteriously' has a billboard on I35 just outside of Temple displaying their recent national championship. Not the most common place to see such advertising.

smoke....

haha, I've noticed that same billboard doctor. This first time I saw it I was like WTF?!?! Did we miss our exit.

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I know the election is real important and stuff, but come on. This is Baylor football!

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He's already ruled us out.

let us never post about him again.

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I know L$U 'mysteriously' has a billboard on I35 just outside of Temple displaying their recent national championship. Not the most common place to see such advertising.

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i wish we had something to put on a billboard for recruits to see

That billboard should mysteriously catch fire.

A member of his family regularly posts on both a Horn and Sooner board. A poster asked her if the rumors of a 'street agent' are true, and she responded that it was a business decision.

The dirtier LS' recruitment gets, the more likely that bottom-feeder of a college called LSU wins out.

What's a street agent?

I don't want to post any pay info here, but there was a very cryptic tidbit from a Horn insider that was intriguing to say the least.

I can tell you that some Horns (by no stretch all) have written him off.

i have heard the very same as skihorn ... advantage, Texas A&M!

lsu is much like ou in that they so totally control the state, they can cheat with impunity.

First, nothing following is aimed at a particular recruit.

Second, the term "street agent" is used to describe an individual who "befriends" a hotly recruited player and/or the players family and positions themselves to be the representative for said player/family in dealings with recruiters.

The allegations are that these "friends" solicit funds from schools and their boosters for visits and signatures (the "rates" have been published on some boards...like $3,500 for an unofficial visit). Have you ever wondered how a kid from modest means, who happens to be a great prospect, can afford to make "unofficial visits" [visits the institutions do not finance] to 10+ schools as some are now doing? According to some these "street agents" take a cut of these funds and hope to be in a position to either represent the kid when he turns pro or get paid by an agent for steering a kid to him.

The sales pitch to the family is that they'll be compensated for all of the fuss of being recruited and since these coaches recruiting their kids are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on the backs of their kids...it is only "fair" that they should make something off of the process! This flies particularly well in communities where the "value" of a scholarship is not understood or considered.

There are schools, LSU is one of them, rumored to not be shy in "dealing with" these "family friends" in order to recruit the outstanding prospects some of them are representing.

This is rampant in college basketball and is becoming more frequent in college football because of the publicity (via rivals/scout/etc) these young men are getting at earlier and earlier ages.

I know that the information is getting back to the coaches at Temple and they are getting involved.

A Street Agent is a person that associates himself with a recruit or recruits family to act as an "advisor" to help them through the recruiting process, usually families with single mothers. He will then be the point person for the recruit and their family with the schools that are recruiting him. He will ask for favors, cash, cars, etc. from the schools and give a portion to the recruit and family as a gesture of goodwill. Many times the recruit and the recruits family know nothing of the payments that the street agent has gotten from the school. Some of these guys actually "work" for professional agents to try and build their roster of clients if these kids have the ability to go pro. This started in AAU basketball and is now entering the football side.

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First, nothing following is aimed at a particular recruit.

Second, the term "street agent" is used to describe an individual who "befriends" a hotly recruited player and/or the players family and positions themselves to be the representative for said player/family in dealings with recruiters.

The allegations are that these "friends" solicit funds from schools and their boosters for visits and signatures (the "rates" have been published on some boards...like $3,500 for an unofficial visit). Have you ever wondered how a kid from modest means, who happens to be a great prospect, can afford to make "unofficial visits" [visits the institutions do not finance] to 10+ schools as some are now doing? According to some these "street agents" take a cut of these funds and hope to be in a position to either represent the kid when he turns pro or get paid by an agent for steering a kid to him.

The sales pitch to the family is that they'll be compensated for all of the fuss of being recruited and since these coaches recruiting their kids are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on the backs of their kids...it is only "fair" that they should make something off of the process! This flies particularly well in communities where the "value" of a scholarship is not understood or considered.

There are schools, LSU is one of them, rumored to not be shy in "dealing with" these "family friends" in order to recruit the outstanding prospects some of them are representing.

This is rampant in college basketball and is becoming more frequent in college football because of the publicity (via rivals/scout/etc) these young men are getting at earlier and earlier ages.

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I know that the information is getting back to the coaches at Temple and they are getting involved.

A Street Agent is a person that associates himself with a recruit or recruits family to act as an "advisor" to help them through the recruiting process, usually families with single mothers. He will then be the point person for the recruit and their family with the schools that are recruiting him. He will ask for favors, cash, cars, etc. from the schools and give a portion to the recruit and family as a gesture of goodwill. Many times the recruit and the recruits family know nothing of the payments that the street agent has gotten from the school. Some of these guys actually "work" for professional agents to try and build their roster of clients if these kids have the ability to go pro. This started in AAU basketball and is now entering the football side.

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very accurate explanations of what is going on, especially in basketball.

I cannot stand this type of thing.

Yeah, I've heard from a number of people that LS has shady characters "guiding" him to certain schools. His mom can call it a "business decision" if it helps her sleep at night.

I understand business decisions when the kid is trying to get in the NFL. But not when choosing a college.

U364993: I doubt you have heard the same thing as me if you say "adavantage A&M."

Just curious, what have you heard (unless it is from a pay site)?

l$u

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I believe tigerdroppings is an LSU messageboard

tigerdroppings??? do these people not think before naming their message boards? hilarious!

a mizzou fan posted that on tigerdroppings.

there is a family friend of ls that has known him since he was about 11 that is a lsu fan. he posts on the lsu messageboard and since the street agent has come around he has hardly seen ls. the street agent is definitely not pushing lsu. we were in the lead so we did not want this kind of guy anywhere near ls.

ryan, if there is a "street agent" involved the kid will go with who has paid the "street agent".

The street agent talk is from Texas fans, this coming after one of his very close relations said he would never go Texas.

There is no street agent, its just fans that like many now know he is LSU's to lose.

But as I told many here and else where its a long time until sgining day on his class near 1 3/4 years.

Tigger
Don't be so sure. There was an interview done on Fox and in that interview his "trainer" was there.

Skihorn - my info came by way of the texas pay sites so I will refrain from giving details. I was just joking on my previous post about "advantage A&M" as the info on LS wasn't framed in a very positive manner ... (It just seems as of late that this is the only way A&M can get a leg up on a five-star recruit type).

I do hope it was misinformation, just for this young man's sake.

Unfortunately LS is not the only player, it is becoming more and more common in the HS football ranks.

Disregarding the above

He is supposed to play here in college station not this friday but the next friday being 9/26

just a heads up

He was at my son's baseball game today and one of the dads there was a t-sip and started to ask him about his college choices. Although I didn't catch what he said about tu, I did hear him say word for word, "I might go to A&M." I then told him we would love to see him play for the Aggies.
During the conversation he expressed how much a good O-line means for him and followed up with " Ireally like Coach McWhorter at Texas."
Didn't hear anything about l$u.
He was like a celebrity there. Dude's legs are HUGE!

FWIW

for what it's worth---before the game he told the guy next to me at Consol-Temple game that he wanted to go to USC...go figure..

What's the fuss about? He didn't look that great last night at the consol game.